Art & Design
Spirals
Reception have been practicing spirals for their art project this week. We practiced lots of different sizes on big paper and they created some fantastic trees in the style of Gustav Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’.
Reception have been practicing spirals for their art project this week. We practiced lots of different sizes on big paper and they created some fantastic trees in the style of Gustav Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’.
Reception have been learning about different shops on our high street. Today we set up our own cafe in the classroom and practiced ordering food, exchanging money and being the cafe workers. We used our phonics knowledge to write down our orders.
Today Reception were very lucky to have a special visit from Rachel from SCARF coram life education. We met Harold the happy, healthy giraffe and talked about our bodies. We learnt what to do to keep ourselves healthy and happy. We also learnt about what is inside our bodies and Read more…
This week Reception have been learning about the artist Gustav Klimt. We looked at some of his work and learnt a new word; ‘mosaic’. We then had a go at making our own mosaic pictures. Look at our fabulous creations.
Reception enjoyed their Christmas party today. We played lots of games, danced to our favourite music, ate lots of delicious food and even had a special visit from Father Christmas! We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Reception have been learning all about the Christmas story this week. We have talked about the meaning behind Christmas and why Christians celebrate it. We read the story and had a go at acting it out.
Today was the first day of Advent. Reception opened their first 2 books in our Advent calendar. Today Ellis and Alfie were chosen out of our hat to open the first two presents. We were excited to read them during story time! We also found a little chocolate surprise in Read more…
Reception had lots of fun putting up our class Christmas tree. They all worked together and did a fantastic job!
In this week’s story craft session, Reception and Nursery read Handa’s Surprise. We then got messy with our fingers and created some wonderful fruit pictures, remembering what fruit Handa had in her basket.
This afternoon Reception and Nursery talked about Children in need and Pudsey Bear. We discussed how important it is that children are happy, healthy and safe. We made our own Pudsey ears and decorated spotty biscuits just like Pudsey’s eye patch! We ate our biscuits during story time and they Read more…